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Madeline Doucette
I am in the second year of my doctoral degree at the University of Victoria majoring in clinical neuropsychology. I completed my Master’s of Science in Clinical Neuropsychology also at the University of Victoria in the summer of 2021. My interests are primarily in the effects of exercise and sports...
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Madeline Wood
Madeline is a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Rabin at University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Research Institute. Her doctoral research aims to understand how sex differences risk and protective factors contribute to female vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease. Madeline’s research leverages sensitive neuropsychological measures, mutlimodal neuroimaging, and...
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Madison Lackie
Madison Lackie, a Master’s of Science student in the UBC Reproductive and Developmental Sciences program, working primarily out of the Women’s Health Research Institute at BC Women’s Hospital. Her research interests focus on postpartum depression and the use of technology to support healthcare. Madison completed her Bachelor of Science with...
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Magdalena Martínez-García
Dr. Martínez García, a postdoctoral researcher in human neuroscience, holds a degree in Biotechnology from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2015) and a master’s degree in Neuroscience from the Universitat de Barcelona (2016). She completed her PhD in Biomedical Science and Technology (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) at the Group...
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Maggie Woo Kinshella
Maggie Woo Kinshella (@MaggieWooK on Twitter) is the Global Health Research Coordinator with PRE-EMPT (PREgnancy Evidence, Monitoring, Partnerships and Treatment), IMCHA (Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa) and BEMEQ (Burden Ethnographic Modeling Evaluation Qaujilisaaqtuq) projects in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pathology at UBC. She works...
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Maha Khawaja
Maha Khawaja is a Health and Society PhD student at McMaster University conducting sexual health, wellbeing, and relationship research in a social psychology lab. Her focus is on how life-altering experiences such as cancer, radiation treatment, and pelvic pain shape intimacy and dyadic experiences. Maha’s goal is to develop better...
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Mahsa Jessri
Dr. Mahsa Jessri is Faculty at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Assistant Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health in the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and an Associate Member in the Division of Health Services and Policy at the UBC School of Population and...
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Mai Wageh
Mai Wageh is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular Exercise Physiology and Muscle Aging Lab as well as the Protein Metabolism Research Lab, supervised by Dr. Gianni Parise and Dr. Stuart Phillips, respectively. Her M.Sc. work looked at multi-ingredient protein supplementation and resistance training in healthy young men and...
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Maia Stelfox
I am currently a third-year student pursuing a BComm with a focus in Economics, Finance and Management from the University of Toronto. I previously worked a summer intern, providing research service and data analysis services for the University of Calgary and the Dalhousie University.
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Makayla Freeman
Makayla Freeman (she/they) received her BA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Calgary in 2020, and her MA in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia in 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen. She is currently a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in...
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Makenna Gargus
I am a masters student in the neuroscience laboratory of Dr. Marie-Eve Tremblay at the University of Victoria. I am studying the effect of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation in a model of maternal immune activation to determine how the treatment and infection affect the mothers pregnancy, as well as the...
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Makenna Vanegas
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